Stories from Wednesday, June 16, 2021

The Poplar Bluff Stage Company's production of “Cheaper By the Dozen” kicks off Friday with a 7:30 p.m. show at the Rodgers Theater in downtown Poplar Bluff. The play is based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. It was turned into a film in 1950 and a play in 1992...

Tuesday's Games BABE RUTH LEAGUE Las Margarita’s vs. Rent One Wednesday's Games CIVIC LEAGUE Haffy’s vs. Shoe Carnival, 5:30 p.m. Sterling Bank vs. Innovative Ortho., 6:30 p.m. Boss Squad vs. Smith & Sons, 7:30 p.m. LITTLE LEAGUE...

Thomas Lewis Pruitt, 81, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri passed away Monday, June 14, 2021, at Westwood Hills Health & Rehabilitation in Poplar Bluff. Thomas was born on March 30, 1940, to Lewis and Marjorie Pruitt in St. Louis, Missouri. He married Deborah Lynn (Hancock) on May 28, 1993, in Butler County, Missouri...

Katie N. Maulden, 20, of Poplar Bluff, passed away Tuesday, June 15, 2021. She was born November 29, 2000 in Poplar Bluff to John Maulden and Kimberly Starnes. She was a lifetime resident of Poplar Bluff. Her interests were going camping and attending demolition derbies but enjoyed time with family the most...

The Poplar Bluff community will observe Juneteenth Friday and Saturday in a variety of collaborative activities at different locations. The celebration commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union troops rode into Galveston, Texas, two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to announce the Civil War had ended, and slaves had been freed. Juneteenth is short for “June Nineteenth.”...

POPLAR BLUFF FIRE DEPARTMENT City firefighters responded at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 14, to a report of a motor vehicle accident with injuries at 1710 Sanders. According to the report, while en route, dispatch informed firefighters that a car had struck a motorcycle. Upon arrival, firefighters discovered a car had struck a dirt bike being operated by a juvenile who had cuts and abrasions on their legs. Firefighters assisted EMS on scene...